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If it have any blemish, [as if it be] lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
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God Deserves Our Best
All commentators agree that the prohibition against sacrificing a blemished animal underscores a core principle: God is holy and deserves our absolute best. John Gill connects this to other laws in Leviticus and Malachi, emphasizing that an imperfect offering is unfit for a perfect God. This wasn't just about the animal, but the heart attitude of the worshiper.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare to Exodus 13:11 and following. The directions of the preceding legislation (see Numbers 18:15 and following) are here assumed, with the inj…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if there is any blemish therein In the firstling, as if it be "lame or blind", or have any ill blemi…
Here is instruction on what to do with the firstlings. We are not now limited as the Israelites were; we make no difference between a first calf, o…
